Monday, October 01, 2012

Saturday was the beginning of our next yoga challenge. This
couldn’t have come at a better time for me. September was one crappy, stressful
month for me, and for my family. There were several evenings when Matt and I
enjoyed a bowl of (organic) ice cream and commiserated over bad days while Mike
put Chloe to bed. Maybe ice cream doesn’t solve anything, but it does help!

But the problem with a challenging month is that I started
to doubt myself. And feel crappy about myself. So, yes. I’m looking forward to
this challenge. It’s simple, really: attend 20 classes in 30 days and
participate in a weekly challenge. This week is daily 2-minute planks. I
mentioned to one of my teachers that I didn’t think I could do a 2 minute
plank, and after assuring me I could, he proceeded to have us all do a set in
class (in addition to the regular stuff), and although I can’t say it was the
highlight of my class, it was nice to know I could do this.

Next week is meditation, so I’m actually trying out a
meditation class on Thursday! I know. Crazy crazy! The class is an hour in the
evening, right before my favourite 8:30 class. Truthfully the idea of
meditating for an hour strikes me as crazier than well, pretty much anything I’ve
ever done. The teacher has promised the class will be fine, and there are
pillows and blankets so I guess I can always take a nap and say I’m deep into
meditating.

Anyway …

That brings me to something that I’m trying to figure out
and just can’t.

I’ve committed to a regular yoga practice – and I signed up
for a year. I love it all, but I LOVE Thursday nights because the teacher is
amazing, and now this whole meditation thing first…. Awesome. And it’s worked
well because Wednesday night has been my running night with the 10k clinic. I
signed up for the 10k clinic because I’m doing the half marathon in February,
but I felt like I needed to have more of a running foundation (pacing,
breathing, etc) before I jumped into a half marathon clinic. That was an
awesome choice and definitely worth it. And it’s worked so beautifully with my
yoga schedule.

And now the clinic is almost done. I’m actually really sad about
this. And the choices arise.

Choice 1 – Sign up for the half marathon clinic as planned.
This means a month off of clinic (but I will still run), and then the clinic is
designed to build to a March race, and by my February race the distances will
work with some tweaking. This clinic is on Thursday so I will miss my Thursday
yoga night. Boo. But, I’ve heard the clinic instructor is good.

Choice 2 – Sign up for the 10 Miler Clinic (16km) which
builds toward a 10 mile race on December 26th. This means that I’ll
have to figure out 2 months of half marathon training, but I can run with the
half group on Sundays if I want to. The perk to this – I know and love the
clinic instructor and I know a lot of the people in the clinic. It’s also on
Wednesdays, which means that I can do the Thursday yoga.

Okay – talk about first world problems. But, still. It’s
like 2 of a good thing. I just don’t know. Suggestions? Anyone.

Truthfully, I just need to let this one go a little bit.
Both options are awesome! And right now I’m focused on this yoga challenge
combined with my goal race the week after Thanksgiving.

Life may not make sense right now. But, in some weird way
everything else kind of does.